BIO

Richard Thompson Ford is the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. An expert on civil rights and anti-discrimination law, Richard Thompson Ford has distinguished himself as an insightful voice and compelling writer on questions of race and multiculturalism. His scholarship combines social criticism and legal analysis and he writes for both popular readers and for academic and legal specialists. His work has focused on the social and legal conflicts surrounding claims of discrimination, on the causes and effects of racial segregation, and on the use of territorial boundaries as instruments of social regulation.

He has published regularly in Slate, the Boston Review, the San Jose Mercury News, and the San Francisco Chronicle as well as in several prestigious academic journals including the Harvard Law Review and the Stanford Law Review. He is the author of Racial Culture: A Critique and The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse.

REVIEWS

Praise for The Race Card
"Pragmatic . . . few would object to Ford's emphasis on the need for long-term solutions to persistent segregation and poverty."
-The New Yorker

"Ford is bracing. . . . He takes dead aim at racial opportunists, opponents of affirmative action, multiculturalists, and the myriad rights organizations trying to hitch a ride on the successes of the black civil rights movement. . . . Best of all, he argues his humane, centrist position without apology or hesitation."
-William Grimes, The Seattle Times

Praise for Rights Gone Wrong
"A rationalist analysis of the efficacy of a multitude of antidiscrimination laws…All sides can learn much from Ford’s thinking."
-Publishers Weekly

"Ford has written a highly accessible narrative that underscores the need for Americans to roll up their sleeves and do the heavy lifting necessary to address persistent economic and racial inequality….With this book, Ford has in effect contributed a new placard to the American protest march."
-America magazine

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